- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Union County
- Creator:
- Cooksey, Elizabeth B.
- Date of Original:
- 2006-08-25
- Subject:
- Counties--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Union County, 34.83401, -83.99076
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Union County, Georgia. Union County, located in northeast Georgia at the southern tip of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is the state's eighty-third county and comprises 323 square miles. Its northern border is shared with North Carolina. In 1832 the state legislature created Union County from Cherokee County. John Thomas, a state representative for the area, suggested the name "Union." The western part of the county was annexed by Fannin County in 1854, and in 1856 the southern tip was given to Gilmer County and an eastern section went to Towns County. Most of the first white settlers of the area were Virginians who traveled to Georgia through the mountain passages of the Carolinas.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/union-county/
- Language:
- eng
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- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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